Southington: The overtime issue. Evidently, the manager thinks it's cheaper to pay overtime than to hire more people, and he may be right. But the Finance Board seems to think overtime "reckless," and the council is challenged to contain costs. It's a nasty situation, since so many department heads are part of the union. Someone ought to work something out here before it all explodes.
Area: The number of fire calls. Why does Meriden's fire department take medical calls while others do not? If a significant part of the increase is due to medicals, then there's one more argument for universal health care. That needn't be the routine work of the fire department, should it?
Wallingford: I love Dickinson's bit with the chess pieces. There's nothing like visual aids and a gimmick.
Meriden: David Reardon, Chair of the Inland Wetlands and Watercourse Commission, will abide by the Board of Ethics decision, demonstrating the value of calling upon such an entity before rather than after some action is called into question.
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